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A PokerStars employee apparently gripped by pseudo-religious, end of the world beliefs managed to spam an undetermined number of the site’s customers on Friday, forcing the company to issue a public apology and institute heightened controls on its emailing practices.

The spam, sent out via the pokerstars.eu mail servers by an employee in the company’s Isle of Man headquarters, included links to a small new-age website that warned visitors that the Age of Pisces would be ending on December 21, to be followed by three days of darkness when normal “electrical or metallic objects will [not] work.”

The resumption of normal electrical services, according to the website, would occur on Christmas Day, also supposedly the start of the new Age of Aquarius.

Stars officials at first refused to believe that the spam in question had originated within their company, before checking out information posted at a debunking forum, godlikeproductions.com, that showed the small website’s owner was also listed as being employed in “Business Intelligence at PokerStars,” in addition to having misappropriated the use of the 'Stars mail server.

PokerStars soon after released an apology, admitting “one of our employees violated internal policies by accessing our marketing database and sending an unauthorized communication to a small number of player email addresses.”